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Does your baby hang out in one spot all the time?

vlsnessa wrote:

It feels like my baby just hangs out on the right side of my belly. At night if I try to lay down on my right side, it hurts. The baby pushes (not kicks) but pushes on one spot of my belly all the time. It's so weird. I think it's probably her foot. I feel her poke out on the right side of my belly, beneath my right rib. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Yep!! My guy hangs all to the left, I often have a lopsided belly. I feel 99% of the movement on my right side because that's where his legs and arms are curled up. It's pretty normal I think for them to favour one side or the other.

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LindseyM1924

I feel exactly what you are describing! My baby hasn't dropped yet and his foot sticks out right under my right rib cage and it's so painful to sleep on my right side! I'm ready for him to make his way down so i can sleep normal again! :P

Yes, I thought it was my imagination because this happens only at night when husband comes home from work no matter with side he is seating next to me baby follows his voice and my belly gets so hard on the side he is on then when he starts talking to baby, kissing & rubbing my belly he goes back to normal is amazing

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vlsnessa

Glad I'm not the only one! Sometimes I feel like maybe the baby is stuck and can't move out of that spot haha. I have no idea if I've dropped because I don't really know how to tell. People tell my I have and that my belly is lower, and I'm just like oookay.

Mine has stayed on the right side the entire pregnancy. When she got a little bigger she moved more center but she is still on the right side with her arms and legs kicking on the left. Like someone else, I have one stretch mark on my right side where she is and can't lay on that side bc it hurts.

Yep, the bub has been in this position since about 25 weeks, and apparently it's optimal. (Head down, back to front, and feet in the ribs.) Be happy he's found his spot.

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hvajs

Yes! this is very normal. Babys spine is on the left, and everything else on the right :) My stretchmarks are basically all on my right side because of this!

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AfraThyra

Baby chills on my right. And some how I still get pokes on my right. I have no idea how he is laying and the midwife couldn't tell at my last appointment. It's like my left side is scary or something because he's all on my right and I still get a foot or an elbow or something under my right rib. He's head down and has dropped.. But we can't work out his body. I'm pretty sure his legs are more inside and to the back of me not in my bump area x

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